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Somebody posted a recipe on facebook the other day that was for "2-ingredient strawberry fudge," aka an entire can of artificially flavored strawberry frosting mixed with a big bag of melted white chocolate chips. Talk about sugar overload. Makes me want to gag just thinking about it.

It actually makes me glad that people think recipes like this pass for fudge. It means that when I make my grandmother's fudge recipe (which is not paleo, although i halve the added sugar and chose the darkest chocolate I can find) people are even more amazed and overwhelmed with how awesome it is.

"Since going primal, I've found that there are very few problems that cannot be solved with butter and/or bacon fat."

2. In large bowl, combine the pudding mix with skim milk. Whisk until starting to thicken. Fold in both containers of cool whip FREE.

3. Pour half the "fluff" mixture over the cubed angel food cake in pan. Top with half the crushed butterfinger candies. Repeat with rest of cake, fluff and candy. Cover and refrigerate for at least an hour before serving, or overnight. Enjoy!

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I meant to share this conversation I had the other day with a woman aged around 30 that was sitting next to me on a park bench. We were both having our lunch out of tupperware boxes. Mine consisted of a half roast chicken, an avocado and a tub of whipped cream with nuts, bottle of water. Hers was white bread sandwiches, a packet of crisps (potato chips in US English), a low fat yoghurt, a cupcake and a can of 7-Up

Anyway, I was ripping the flesh off the chicken and dunking it into a little pot of homemade mayo and it was delicious! This young woman looked at me and virtually gasped at the sight of me with mayo all round my face and chomping on an avocado like it was an apple! haha

So she pipes up and says:

"Excuse me, but how can you eat so much fat? Aren't you worried?"

Now, I didn't mention the box full of CW crap she was eating (typical podgy English girl, clearly been living on CW crap all her life) and so I just said:

"Well, it tastes good and does me good! I feel great eating this stuff"

and carried on eating until she says:

"But, don't you worry about what that will do to you when you get older?"

To which I replied:

"How old do you think I am then?"

She takes a closer look (I had wiped the mayo off my chops by this time) and says:

"Dunno. Thirty? Thirty-two?"

Which was quite pleasing because I had the pleasure of saying:

"I just turned 49 sweetheart"

And she exclaimed:

"No way!!"

Had to show her my driving licence to prove it. And I gave her the link to this forum.

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Anyway, I was ripping the flesh off the chicken and dunking it into a little pot of homemade mayo and it was delicious! This young woman looked at me and virtually gasped at the sight of me with mayo all round my face and chomping on an avocado like it was an apple! haha

Excellent story, although I can kind of sympathize with the mayo thing. Not because "OMG fat!!!!!111!" but because I have an extreme aversion to mayonnaise. I don't know why, but imagining it smeared on someone's mouth makes my skin crawl.
It's an irrational fear though, and even if I saw it happening I wouldn't say anything to the person. They aren't responsible for my phobia...I'd just look away.

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For me it's not a fear. I just hate the taste and texture. Yes, even the homemade stuff. Yes, even baconnaise. It's just foul tasting to me. I probably wouldn't think twice about seeing on the side of someone's face, though (although I would probably make the universal "You have something on your face" gesture.) To each their own.

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A hypnotist can help you get over an irrational fear or phobia of mayonnaise.

Maybe but I can't justify spending the money on that. It's mayonnaise. It's easy enough to avoid.
I don't like the taste either so I don't keep it in my house because it'd just go bad because I only ever use it in the odd dish where it's a minor ingredient, but I've prepared food for other people with it. At a picnic when I'm with people who like mayonnaise on sandwiches, etc.

Okay, hypothetically, if I were starving to death and had to eat mayonnaise by the spoonful to live...well then I'd start thinking that it's time I conquered my fear, but until then I'm not going to worry about 'fixing' it